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The Detroit Tigers, coming off three consecutive appearances in the American League Championship Series (and a World Series in 2012), rocketed up 46 spots to No. 51 in this year's player payroll efficiency index of all the teams in the four major U.S. pro sports leagues.

The index was crafted and published by Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday. The struggling Detroit Pistons, out of the playoffs for five years, dropped 49 spots. The Red Wings and Lions also dropped less dramatically. The index was last published in 2012. Businessweek said it based its ranking on player payroll and how much each team spent per victory over the past five seasons. It also rewarded teams for meaningful victories, such as those in the playoffs and championships. "Each team is compared against the average price per win in its league to produce a score we call the efficiency index. The less a team spends compared with its peers, the lower its score," the financial news site explained. Here are Detroit's four teams' 2014 rankings, with 2012 ranking in parenthesis and how many spots the team moved up or down since then:

Red Wings: No. 15 (No. 3, -12)

Tigers: No. 51 (No. 97, +46)

Pistons: No. 109 (No. 60, -49)

Lions: No. 111 (No. 110, -1)

The rankings are for the 122 teams that make up the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association and National Hockey League.